Film Theories: Whack-a-doo or Truth-a-doodle-doo?

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Pulp Fiction: The Briefcase

The glowing, ethereal object within the briefcase that Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield retrieve is actually Marsellus Wallace’s soul.

In the past, Marsellus made a deal with the Devil, who removed his soul through the back of his head, explaining the placement of the Band-Aid when he is first revealed.

The briefcase’s passcode? The “number of the beast.”

Marsellus sends Vincent and Jules to steal his soul back from Bret and his friends, who are actually servants of the Devil. When the fourth man tries to shoot them, God really does intervene after all, helping the hitmen save a soul.

 

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Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Cameron's Imagination

Ferris Bueller does not actually exist, and is instead an imaginary alter ego created by the clinically depressed Cameron Frye.

This cooler and daring version of himself is willing to do all of the things that Cameron is afraid to do, like borrowing his father’s car for a day out on the town.

All of Ferris’s hijinks around Chicago and his relationship with Sloane are simply the products of Cameron’s daydreams and the life he wishes he had.

At the climax, Cameron realizes that he no longer needs Ferris; he can face his father and confront his life problems on his own.

 

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The Shining: Faking the Moon Landing

Not only does this theory assume that the moon landing was faked, it also claims that Stanley Kubrick filmed it himself, and peppered hints about this conspiracy throughout The Shining.

Fans point out that Danny’s sweater proudly boasts a stitching of the Apollo 11 spaceship. When he stands up from playing with his toys on the ground, the rocket "takes off."

Also, the number of “the room” was changed from 217 in the book, to 237 in the movie, which fans connect to the 237,000 miles in average distance between the earth and the moon.

 

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The Pixar Theory

This elaborate fan theory creates a timeline that connects all of the Pixar movies from Toy Story to Monsters University together into one universe.

According to the theory, the magic from 14th century Scotland in Brave gives animals and inanimate objects human-level sentience over time, like the rats ofRatatouille or the toys in Toy Story.

This eventually leads to the animals waging war against humans over industrial pollution, forcing the human race to depart Earth on the spaceship Axiom seen in Wall-E.

During the absence of the humans, new life, affected by the lingering pollution, begins to evolve. This results in the bugs of A Bug's Life and the monsters of Monsters, Inc.

 

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My Neighbor Totoro: The God of Death

The big, adorable mascot of Studio Ghibli is not so cute after all; he is actually the God of Death.

People who will die in the near future begin to see the harbinger of death, explaining why only Mei and Satsuki can see Totoro.

When Mei goes missing and a sandal is found in the pond, Mei actually drowned, and Satsuki, blaming herself for her sister's death, lies about the sandal not being Mei's.

Satsuki begs Totoro to help her find Mei. Totoro allows Satsuki into the realm of the dead, so that she can be with her sister.

At the end, the girls’ mother is only able to spot them in the tree outside the hospital because she is nearing death herself.